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resinch a dieing disk or add new disk & resinch?
Apologies again. I posted the same message in the "Test" board, and got complete unnoticed / unseen. As it is rather urgent, I am re-posting it here, where I hope it will be seen. I could not find a b...
Good afternoon Stephen,
Hurrayyyy
I eventually managed to run Seatools for DOS (graphical), off another Hiren disk (I have many versions/copies).
Long Test PASSED
Run it again, PASSED it again.
Lifeguard had already passed it, first time around.
Basically all tests run with all softares were passed, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF VICTORIA, which finds a block which is too slow >1000ms and it flags it as an error. I rerun the Victoria test just on the area of that block, and identified the same block, twice. I am currently re-testing the entire disk, with Victoria off the other CD, as yesterday Victoria twice stopped at 49.2% execution time (and 98%, when I restarted it half way thru' - I feel that this is somewhat unrelated).
Victoria can "remap" the offending block (which I would do unless you advice me not to do - not sure how these things are dealt).
Whether I remap the block or not, considering that both Seatools and Lifeguard don't find any fault, I imagine that I could refit the disk in bay1 (its original place). NAS should then re-synching the whole lot, and hopefully let me access everything again.
I do not know if then the "Disk fail" flag will be removed (but kept it in the logs), or the volume will be considered to be "degraded" forever. If so, what should I do? I have another identical HD ready to go in bay 4, I only wish to know when it is the best time to fit it, and how to maximise my volume, expecially considering that, after all the testing, we should be reasonably comfortable with HD1.
Thanks again, berillio
Hurrayyyy
I eventually managed to run Seatools for DOS (graphical), off another Hiren disk (I have many versions/copies).
Long Test PASSED
Run it again, PASSED it again.
Seatools has always been reliable for me (as has lifeguard)
Lifeguard had already passed it, first time around.
Basically all tests run with all softares were passed, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF VICTORIA, which finds a block which is too slow >1000ms and it flags it as an error. I rerun the Victoria test just on the area of that block, and identified the same block, twice. I am currently re-testing the entire disk, with Victoria off the other CD, as yesterday Victoria twice stopped at 49.2% execution time (and 98%, when I restarted it half way thru' - I feel that this is somewhat unrelated).
Victoria can "remap" the offending block (which I would do unless you advice me not to do - not sure how these things are dealt).
Whether I remap the block or not, considering that both Seatools and Lifeguard don't find any fault, I imagine that I could refit the disk in bay1 (its original place). NAS should then re-synching the whole lot, and hopefully let me access everything again.
I do not know if then the "Disk fail" flag will be removed (but kept it in the logs), or the volume will be considered to be "degraded" forever. If so, what should I do? I have another identical HD ready to go in bay 4, I only wish to know when it is the best time to fit it, and how to maximise my volume, expecially considering that, after all the testing, we should be reasonably comfortable with HD1.
Thanks again, berillio
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